He then with solemne oath and plighted hand Assur'd, ere long the truth to let me vnderstand.
He then, with solemn oath and plighted hand, 9 Assured, ere long, the truth to let me understand.
She wrote the letter to Alvan, feeling in the words that said she was plighted to Prince Marko, that she said, and clearly said, the baroness is now relieved of a rival, and may take you!
You know, to me, Clara, plighted faith, the affiancing of two lovers, is a piece of religion.
She had no courage, no wit, no diligence, nothing that she could distinguish save discontentment like a corroding acid, and she went so far in sincerity as with a curious shift of feeling to pity the man plighted to her.
Her reluctance to espouse the man she was plighted to would cease to be uttered, cease to be felt.
I'm in about the same predicament--or should be if she were plighted to me.
The comparison was all of her own making, and she was indignant at the contrast, though to what end she was indignant she could not have said, for she had no idea of Vernon as a rival of De Craye in the favour of a plighted lady.
I said I could be true to my plighted word, but that you would not insist.
She pleaded a desire to see a little of the world before she plighted herself.
Seriously, plighted faith signifies plighted faith, as much as an iron-cable is iron to hold by.
The cage of a plighted woman hungering for her disengagement has two keepers, a noble and a vile; where on earth is creature so dreadfully enclosed?
Her duty was thus performed; she had plighted herself.
Nevertheless the lovers instinctively concealed their mutual affection from von Metternich, andplighted their troth in secret.
There on the terrace they plighted their troth, and vowed to remain true to each other, whatever might befall.
We plightedour troth after the tourney of Cologne.
We remind Him of His plighted faithfulness by our prayers.
Let kin of his but say I lie, And with this girded sword will I My plightedword in fight maintain.
It was Climorin: hollow of heart was he, He had plighted with Gan in perfidy, What time each other on mouth they kissed, And he gave him his helm and amethyst.
She had given him herplighted troth, and now she was prepared to break it with the first man who asked her!
But at present her troth was plighted to George Voss; and where her troth was given, there was her heart also.
Already have we plighted fame and faith Which, being scorn'd, returns to us again, And by the king's own mouth we are discharged.
Each plighted their troth to the other ere she granted him her favours.
The King of Tunis, hearing the heavy news, sent his ambassadors, clad all in black, to King Guglielmo, complaining of the ill observance of the faith which he had plighted him.
Weeping, I demonstrate How sore with reason doth my heart complain Of love betrayed and plighted faith in vain.
Weeping I demonstrate How sore with reason doth my heart complain Of love betrayed and plighted faith in vain.
Placing his duty to his country and his plighted faith before the longings of his heart, he remained faithful to the Bourbons.
Give me my horse and arms, and wait for me here; I will go in quest of this knight, and dead or alive I will make him keep his word plighted to so great beauty.
Likewise it had come to his Majesty's ears that he had falsely plighted his troth to two maidens.
He had never till now beheld Ann close at hand, and how gladly did I reply that this was the daughter of Pernhart the town Councillor and she to whom Herdegen had plighted his faith.
And Srul kept firm to the troth Israel had plighted with the Sabbath-bride, even when his father's heart no longer beat, so could not be broken.
So the two plighted troth to one another, Herbart and Hilda: and watching their opportunity they stole away on horseback from the castle.
So lost to honour, lost to truth, As from the fondest lover part, The plightedhusband of her youth?
Falsest of womankind, can'st thou declare All thy fond, plighted vows fleeting as air!
Chloris, I'm thine wi' a passion sincerest, And thou hast plighted me love o' the dearest!
We hae plighted our troth, my Mary, In mutual affection to join; And curst be the cause that shall part us!
I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live And play i' th' plighted clouds.
There are three things a wise man will not trust: The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
It's neither fear nor duty, It's neither quick nor dead, Shall gar me withdraw the plighted hand, Or break the word once said.
Two clans, the Camerons and the Campbells, lay claim to this bracing story; and they do well: the man who preferred his plighted troth to the commands and menaces of the dead is an ancestor worth disputing.
I'm wae for your death, my brother, But if all of my house were dead, I couldna withdraw the plighted hand, Nor break the word once said.
This last, sprung from the noblest and the best, Betrayed his plighted troth, and sold his guest!
Next to him Juan stands, His son; his plighted hand was worth the hands Of kings.
